rsvidyapithThe Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh and the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi, which are Deemed Universities, have been taking steps to unearth the vast scientific and other relevant knowledge from Sanskrit literature. The Vidyapeetha has prepared nearly 200 exhibits covering a variety of subjects like Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Gemology, Botany, Ayurveda, Medicine, Geology, Meteorology, Biology, Metallurgy, etc. in Sanskrit Science exhibition. It has also brought out two publications describing each exhibit in detail.

The Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, publishes a Research Journal, Sanskrit Vimarsha, encouraging articles relating to the vast scientific and other relevant knowledge from Sanskrit literature, and has constituted a working group on Sanskrit knowledge from Sanskrit literature. The Sansthan would be organizing the next World Sanskrit Conference in January, 2012 in which two sessions would be devoted for Science and Technology in Sanskrit.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Smt. D. Purandeswari, in a written reply to a question, in the Lok Sabha today.